The International Festival of Film Schools was established in 1981. It is now one of the most important festivals for young filmmakers in the world. More than 3,500 films have been presented at the festival since its inception. More than 3,200 foreign students and professors have had opportunities to meet, enter into discussions and share their experiences with each other. 

Come join the hottest shorts film fest in the SouthWest. Taos Shortz Film Festival is rapidly becoming an internationally known film festival. We are dedicated to featuring quality, juried short films from around the globe and we invite you to bring your adventure of creativity to our film fest.  Take the opportunity to strut your stuff amidst the mountains and mesas of Taos, NM.  Do you have a tale to tell?

 

A secret to reveal?

A truth that screams to be heard?

We are a forum that unites short films and filmmakers with the community, with the belief that films have the ability to change peoples lives.

The Taos Shortz Film Fest continues to bring world class cinema to our community and beyond and to provide filmmakers with a venue to showcase their work, participate in workshops, panels, and network with fellow filmmakers, media companies, producers and distributors.        

The Taos Shortz Film fest will be held March 7th to 10th 2013 at the Taos Center for the Arts.

We will screen global short films, focus on New Mexico filmmakers and a local Taos filmmaker night on Thursday, March 7th.  Free panel discussions and networking possibilities are being planned plus a few more creative events to make our 2013 festival better than ever!

Our 2012 festival was an enormous success and put Taos back on the map as a cinematic destination. We screened over 70 global and regional short films, offered free panel discussions in experimental film, chalkboard animation and Web Episodes. Taos was hopping as we hosted 200 International filmmakers and partied every night till the wee networking hours…

If you think you have what it takes for this year....

SUBMIT YOUR FILM!

www.taosshortz.com

 

CALL FOR ENTRIES

 

Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival 2012

7 – 11 December 2012

Kathmandu, Nepal

 

The 10^th edition of annual and competitive Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival (KIMFF) will be organised by Himal Association from 7 – 11 December 2012. By screening some of the most recent and exciting films about mountain people, sports, environment, cultures and societies from various corners of the world KIMFF seeks to celebrate the complexity and diversity of mountain life.

 

We are, at the moment, soliciting entries for the festival, and we hope you can participate by sending relevant films you may have directed or produced in the last two years. We look forward to your involvement in KIMFF 2012.

 

The entry form and information brochure are available for download  at www.kimff.org

 

Please visit us at www.kimff.org for more detail.

 

The submission deadline for the entries is 15 September 2012.

 

Interested filmmakers are requested to mark the following timeline:

1 January 2010:                      Films made after this date are eligible

15 September 2012:                Late date for submission of entry

1 November 2012:                  Final selection of entries

15 November 2012:                Last date for submission of final print

7 – 11 December 2012:          Holding of KIMFF 2012

 

For further information, please contact:

Ms. Ramyata Limbu

Festival Director

Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival

Himal Association

Lazimpat, Kathmandu, Nepal.

 

Mailing address:

P.O. Box 166

Patan Dhoka, Lalitpur

Kathmandu, Nepal.

 

Tel.: 977-1-4440635

Email: kimff@himalassociation.org

www.kimff.org

 

POOL is a recurring format for dance- and animation-film. The Aim is to create a platform for dancers, choreographers, directors, artists, organizers and other interested people. POOL offers space for a mutual exchange of experiences, developing and advanced training, and presentations prospects. It`s a platform for those kinds of films, which picture dance not as a simple documentation, but more as a creative piece of art, using cuts and several other techniques for creation. We also like films which include every kind of non-dance movement in choreography. Moreover biographies of creators are less important or whether it`s a high or low budget film.

Films shouldn`t be longer than 30 min and also not only a documentation of a dance piece. That means the filmed material should be edited in any way. Exceptions are films, which use the pure documentation as a part of the creative process.

The festival's main purpose of existance is create alternative venues for watching South African produced films as well as films from Africa and the world. Use film as tool to empower peoples lives towards nation building and township regeneration. Foster the development of of audiences for the appreciation of independently produced film products. Contribute to the growth of a film industry in Ekurhuleni. Increase an interest for pursuing as a career. Showcase and exhibit films through Ekurhuleni Film Festival. Develop new audiences and create a cinema friendly culture for locally (South African) produced films within Ekurhuleni and the the surrounding areas.

• The name of the festival is : ‘IONIAN INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL FILM FESTIVAL’ with the abbreviated title “IIDFF’, composed from the initials of its name.
• The Festival will take place in Lefkas Island-Greece once a year in the summer and its events will have a duration nearly of one week.
• The entity to which the Festival belongs to is the Cultural Center of Municipality of Lefkas.
• Scope of the Festival is to promote the new technological and digital means that are being developed in the Greek and International Filmmaking and give the opportunity to as many as possible new creators from all over the world to screen their movies to a high level and modern festival.
• Festival includes movies of any origin from filmmakers coming from all parts the world.
• There are no restrictions in the genre of the movies submitted. 
• The  basic categories a movie should be classified is one of the following 3 with the associated permitted duration times for each category.  Short Films (Minimum : 1’, Maximum : 25’),    Feature Films (Minimum : 60’, Maximum : 120’),   Documentaries (Minimum : 10’, Maximum : 90’)
• Movies should have been produced within the last 2 years, the current and the year before the festival. they should not have any distribution and they should not have been re-submitted to the same festival.
• All movies must be subtitled in English and be submitted in three copies in DVD (PAL format region 0 or 2) so that their screening do not require special equipment and also give the opportunity to filmmakers  to submit their films, they produced, with no restrictions, using simply the widely spread digital media.

 

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